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Assange’s Extradition & Bitcoin’s Battle for Freedom
“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin recognized the potential fate that would befall the world’s first global Fourth Estate. “ – Nozomi Hayase
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ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet
“ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged.” – ION Announcement
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Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy
“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on the rise in many countries,” – Alex Gladstein
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Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released!
“Users can now create a transaction without a signature in the Bitcoin Core GUI using the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) format” – Aaron Van Wirdum
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Explained; 0% interest, Limitless Repo, QE4
“The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the day, and it’s using more tools simultaneously to “fix” markets than ever before. So what are these tools and how is the Fed using them?”
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Bitcoin, Fungibility, & Limits of Privacy
“Keeping the Bitcoin network private can be thought of as an act of unity by Bitcoiners in America to help keep the network useful for Bitcoiners in Venezuela and Hong Kong — indeed, around the world.” – Sasha Hodder & Rafael Yakobi
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Bitcoin, The Technology of Dissent
“We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of trusted third parties. […] Laws of nature that are higher than man-made laws, being enforced by mathematics, have begun to reorganize a society.” – Nozomi Hayase
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How Lightning Can Improve Encrypted Messaging
“Devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app” – Colin Harper
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Microsoft’s ION Bets on Bitcoin
Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for managing and proving identities available to the globe.
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Bitcoin2020 with CK_Snarks!
Today I get hyped with ck_SNARKs of BTCMedia and have the opportunity to pick his brain for all the exciting stuff happening at the Bitcoin2020 conference in San Fran!
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Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin
“The technology to provide auditability and transparency for bitcoin held in custody has been inherent to the protocol from its inception. However, the industry has been slow to incorporate”
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Paying Yourself for Privacy on Lightning?
“The Lightning Network is best known for its fast and cheap payments. But the Layer 2 protocol could also offer more privacy than on-chain payments […] the developer thinks that “self-payments” could be an important part of the privacy puzzle.” – Aaron Van Wirdum
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